I don't have any concrete advice to give you about next steps. I'm glad you've been seeing a counselor and I'm so sorry to hear that this happened to you. How awful! -Valerie
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QuoteConcerned Oz There is no chance LE will ever be launched in Cuba under the current administration. Oz Well. that's one good thing the Cubans have going for them. (And cigars, good music and food, and classic American automobiles.) -Val
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Quotegc4062 Val, Sounds like your friend is caught up in the typical delusional state after the forum. The advanced course is TWICE the price of the forum... depending on the area where you live, it is up to or exceeding QuoteOriginally posted by gc4062 Val, Sounds like your friend is caught up in the typical delusional state after the forum. The advanced course is TWICE the price of th
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to use a Landmarkian phrase against someone in Landmark? Ex: My friend used the phrase "It would mean so much to me if you came to my Tues. night graduation..." So, I went. I have a couple of performances that I'd like her to come to, but I usually don't get out the violin and play the "It would mean so much to me" gambit. By doing so, would it 1) seem
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Yep. Let's see how selfless Landmark is about spreading their philosophy. (I'm sure the answer is: not at all.) My friend mentioned signing up for the Advanced Course and I asked how much it was. Quite a bit more than the Intro even though it was a day longer. When I drew a sharp breah -since she had barely enough $ to do the first course, much less one even more expensive- she got d
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I wonder how much $ that person would have to raise. -to rent space -to pay the Leader Maybe assistants would fly over to help. It seems a bit weird to be soliciting help through a U.S. Craig's list, unless it is to find bilingual helpers/raise $. There was a song I learned in Sunday school which always freaked me out because of its militaristic overtones -"Onward Christian Sold
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QuoteAcid Reindeer glad that an article will appear in Stay Free! and that you took the time to put in those citations. thinking that a large part of the target audience for LEC would read the 'zine. Thanks to everyone on the site who was so helpful in providing definitions and orienting me... -val
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Taking a stand for you – I'm committed to your making your goal. Ex: "I'm taking a stand for you having everything you've ever dreamed of." (29) "In creating a future, we discover in The Landmark Forum how powerful taking a stand can be in having possibilities be brought into reality." -Landmark Forum Website. "There are no words to describe the Forum&qu
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Stay Free! magazine might correct the formatting...I was too lazy to look up the Chicago Manual of Style's endnote formatting. (Damn! I'm so out of date, I don't have one that references website citations.) Thanks for all your input...Some of you will see you names multiple times in the endnotes. -Val (pathetically working on this at 2am-better get to bed before I lose my da
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Setting up the room, control over sound, light and environment--very interesting. -val
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So glad you escaped with your mind intact, Acid Reindeer. "Drama is the spice of life..." -Val QuoteAcid Reindeer I got a look at the day-to-day notes taken to me during my stay in a psychiatic institution and the aides would cite my mother for "use of drama" for asking when they would release me.
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Hm...maybe someone has it on Ebay? A disgruntled former Harmoniac? -val QuoteMarcos There is a full notebook of canned responses given to Harmony/Impact graduates upon their third class. All of them artfully written to avoid any direct confrontations with the truth, and to be as persuasive as possible. I don't have the notebook, but it's possible I could get it. Would make an
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Erg! What a consolation prize for giving up a year of your life to Landmark! -val Quotegc4062 Val, Depends on the region, as tuitions vary by region/country. In the centers I visited, typically reviewers paid either half price, or just the deposit amount. Former employees, if they spent at least one year on staff can participate for free for the balance of their lives.
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Landmark's slogans and jargon encourage a sense of unity and insider/outsider dynamics. (I am still working on completing credit where due. Please let me know if you recognize a quote that should be credited.) Acknowledging – Clapping that follows a person's sharing a realization or declaration. "Already always listening" – People often aren't l
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Wow! OK- if I ever go back to a Forum Tues. night revival meeting, I'll take a good look around and look for the white engraved nametags. Question- when people 'review' a course, do they have to pay again, or is it a 'free for life' deal? -Val Quotegc4062 Val, The gold or yellow nametags with a brown stripe are volunteers (assistants, in landmark jargon) Pl
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I went to a Tues. night forum (see links below). Tried to get my roommate to go later just for the hell of it -she's the one who encouraged me to write a first-person article about the experience. (I almost signed up but said I wanted to think about it when I got home. ) She didn't want to waste her time on it. Don't blame her, really, but it is an impressive show of salesmanship/b
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Sometimes the plants have a different colored nametag from the new graduates and the first-time visitors- differentiated by a brown stripe or something. Hey, maybe we should put up a "Guide to Landmark Badges," sort of like a Girl Scout badge legend. -Val
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Hi peeps- I was away for the weekend (visiting my parents, not Landmark) and have been working on a glossary. I'll try to post it today or tomorrow...my brain is still addled from the red-eye I took last night. -Val
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clicked on the link and cackled out loud! thanks for the lighter side of SY! and I'm so glad you didn't send your kids to the SY school! --val
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I'm glad you're out now, Wordgirl! --Valerie
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About a year ago, my pre-Landmarkian friend M. and I took a self-empowerment class led by a guy in Brooklyn. She held him in deep admiration. I was somewhat skeptical. I found him smug, and with a weird, constant unblinking stare which implied "I can see right into your soul and all the defenses you construct. I am more evolved than you are." The class included a few useful concepts,
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Oy! I'll watch out whenever I see those keywords in a dating profile... -Valerie
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was also started by someone from Landmark -see this topic for more info. There's been a backlash from the glbt community in the past few years that not enough of the $ raised goes toward fighting AIDS- more for the promotion/rider facilities expenses, etc. --Val
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AWESOME, dude!!! You must've blown their minds! Haven't been to any courses myself, but just from reading other folks' writing here, you were able to overcome intense pressure to go against the grain. Bravo!!! -valerie
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and I really appreciate you sharing your insider's info with me. You're fighting the good fight and putting the info about the Landmark's dark site out there. Many, many thanks... Oz- So glad to hear about your friend. Best wishes for her recovery... --Grateful Val
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hee hee! QuoteAcid Reindeer strange survey. not too many people surveyed would have had an actual trip into space, I would have thought.
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My friend said that the climax of the AC was standing up and proclaiming what she wanted (I'm sure there's a term for it that I'm not remembering). She said her desire was for "community." Thanks for all the info. -Valerie Quotegc4062 Community is hammered into your head with about the same force as dropping a 10 ton weight from 12 stories up at first in the
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Thanks for all the info on the Advanced Course and the SELP follow up. Yikes! Talk about technology. What a system! My friend M. tried to refine her technique after the Advanced Course. (She had dragged me to the Intro course 'completion' and I had a visceral reaction.) M: So, I know that you said you were feeling 'pressured' to sign up for Landmark. Can you tell me e
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thanks gc4062! i re-edited my post because it wasn't clear that my friend "M" is not my roommate who's editing the article on Landmark. (Stay Free! is an independent magazine which tracks ads / media influence.) -sigh- val
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thanks corboy! i re-edited my post because it wasn't clear that my friend "M" is not my roommate who's editing the article on Landmark. (Stay Free! is an independent magazine which tracks ads / media influence.) -sigh- val
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